Veteran actress, Folashade Omoniyi-Adewale, popularly known as Lepa Shandy, speaks to EMMANUEL OJO about her career and related issues
After primary and secondary school, I went to the School of Agriculture in Abeokuta before going to the University of Lagos. That was because my dad wouldn’t allow anybody to sit at home, doing nothing. He would say that we should look for something to do while waiting for admission. It made me have experience in many areas. For instance, I also worked in the bank at some point because my dad wouldn’t allow me to rest. I did all of that and I got married late. I was always busy doing something.
Apart from people that are looking up to me, I’m conscious of my daughter. Apart from the public, you have to also consider the kind of legacy you want to leave for your children. What I’m enjoying today is what my father instilled in me.There are many challenges, spiritually, physically, emotionally and so on. Once you get into the industry, let me not even say movie industry, you must be prepared for the negative and positive aspects of it.
Secondly, this is a general one and I think I handled it the best way I could think of. They call it sexual harassment but I won’t call it harassment because it takes two to tango. If a man decides that he wants to go out with you, you have the right to say yes or no. That is what I tell people when they say that they were sexually harassed. I usually ask if their hands and legs were tied or they actually consented to it.
I had an experience one day that I was coming from a location early in the morning on Ikorodu Road, precisely between Ketu and Ojota. There was a traffic situation that day. One of the area boys just recognised me and went to call others. I won’t forget that day in a hurry. The others came and surrounded my car. I thought of giving them something from the cash envelop I got from location but I gave a second thought that they could just take everything if they sighted the envelop.
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